There is one saving grace in all the drama leading up to the NBA trading deadline for the Knicks.

It ends Thursday. And if coach Jeff Hornacek proves to be a prophet, the Knicks roster will stay the same. Hornacek doubled down Tuesday on his pre-All-Star break contention the Knicks would not make a deal.

“Still looks like the same team to me,” Hornacek said after practice in Tarrytown. “I still expect that. There has been a couple trades this year already out there in the NBA, but most of the time there’s all kind of talk and only one or two things ever happen. So we expect these guys to be here.”

Whether or not Carmelo Anthony — or any of his current teammates, notably Derrick Rose — wears a Knicks uniform as soon as Thursday night in Cleveland will be known by that day’s 3 p.m. Eastern deadline.

Hornacek said he fully expects them to take on LeBron James and friends.

“Oh yeah, absolutely,” he said.

Anthony, who was excused from practice because of his All-Star Game participation, is the most intriguing because, well, he’s Anthony. He has said he wants to stay in New York and if that is truly the case, he holds the biggest chip with his no-trade clause.

Recent attention centered around Rose, who has been the object of affection for several teams, including — one league source confirmed — Minnesota, where Tom Thibodeau, his former Bulls coach, is both coach and president of basketball operations.

“I haven’t heard anything about it until I came back here,” Rose said. “Like I said before I left, you never know what’s going to happen. You’ve got to be a professional about it. And whatever it is, I’ll be prepared.”

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Rose has expressed his appreciation for playing in New York. He did it again Tuesday, but noted the matter is out of his hands.

“Does it matter if you’re on the trading block? It doesn’t matter. I love it but it’s not up to me, it’s up to the front office,” Rose said. “I don’t have a problem with the coaching staff, I don’t have a problem with my teammates. I love it here but like I said, this is a business.

“I’m just going with the flow. You’ve just got to go with it, not even think about it. The only thing I can control is the way that I’m playing, my performance and just trying to keep guys together. Other than that, everything else is out of my control.”

The Timberwolves have Ricky Rubio making $13.55 million this year, but he is owed $29 million over the next two years. Rose is at $21.3 million this season, but is a free agent this summer. So if a team really wants Rose as a player and not as an expiring contract or a means to a salary dump, it could just wait until the summer and sign him. The Wolves also have the No. 5 draft pick, point guard Kris Dunn, in development mode.

The obvious teams kicking the tires on Anthony are the Clippers, who don’t want to give up anybody really good; the Cavaliers, who don’t want to give up anybody really good; and the Celtics, who apparently don’t want to give up anybody, period, for the Knicks forward.

Anthony, over the weekend at the All-Star Game, admitted he thinks about a possible move a lot but also said he doesn’t see a scenario that makes sense for him or the Knicks.